Here are the last minutes of normalcy before the country faced a great national tragedy. The first bulletin occurs at the ten-minute mark. Most interesting is how CBS returned to the show (and its commercials) several times. That would never happen today.

The actors on "As The World Turns" did not "stand by." They continued to perform on the show, though some of them heard from the crew what was happening. The show was completed, but as seen here, most of it did not air on the network. A copy of the complete episode, videotaped, without interruptions, exists at the Paley Center for Media.

Just another typical television day in 1963, until suddenly it wasn't.

Wow. Just wow. WOW!


It's classic TV and classic TV history and American history all at the same time!

Can somebody please put a public domain Creative Commons license on this. Last time I checked, there was one on here.

As the World Turns was filmed live,so as the first reports of Kennedys assassination were heard, the actors had to stand by to wait and see what was going to happen, eventually they were told to go home as the show was canceled for today....

Can somebody put a Creative Commons public domain license on this, please?

The program is interrupted at 17:40 with preliminary news of the assassination attempt of President John F. Kennedy.

I found myself waiting for the special announcements from CBD news instead of watching the soap. A true historical document.